There are laws that you can enforce by suing them. It's probably not going to be the case here
whiskers
joined 2 years ago
Are there any major daily driver features from Android missing here? Also are the updates usually stable?
The article was a nice read. I'm surprised that there is either no awareness or discussion in the privacy conscious tech crowd over here on the lack of privacy from anonymous bad actors. Everyone seems to only care about Meta, who are bad, but the most they will do with our data is advertise to us. The other bad actors enabled by ActivityPub can actually doxx, redistribute, save our posts, messages.
It's usually the water that makes people sick. When people from third world countries move to first world countries and live there for a couple of years, they will get sick too when they revisit their home country.
I understand that encryption will not be present but the software should atleast not allow the admins to view the private pictures or messages by default as part of admin tools.
I wouldn't use this until I'm assured of that as posting pictures can lead to being doxxed or they can be found in some unpleasant places on the internet if the admin is not trustworthy
Is the instance admin able to view posts/messages of private accounts like they can do on Lemmy?
Yes, I agree that we can't let them dictate the pace. Let me try to express my thoughts more clearly. Couldn't we have something like The Linux Foundation for Fediverse? It has many corporate members including Google, Microsoft.
Some corporations can be partners to a ActivityPub foundation and contribute to the codebase of the protocol. The foundation itself needs to be independent to steer the features and technical direction according to the Fediverse principles.
As you said just because this is mostly run by volunteers, it need not be an inferior product. But some thought on what I said above might make it something that is adopted by the general populace as well.
It seems likely that some instances will federate and others will not. I think eventually, many people who hate Meta might move to the instances that federated with Meta, just so that they can find people on their social graph.
I'm afraid, that's when silo of the defederated instances will become echo chambers, especially if they do second order blocking as some have threatened to do with mastodon.social
They can already do it by running a simple web scraper or running an anonymous instance that federates with everyone in disguise
For those unfamiliar with Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
Yes, but there is a reasonable assumption that your pictures will only be viewed by your followers on Instagram. I can't see myself switching to PixelFed. I've completely switched from Reddit and Twitter to Mastodon, Lemmy, as I don't tend to share my personal information there anyways.